Game updates scheduled for when PC is off.

[{ИЯm} Keith]

I understand not bogging down the servers, but it scheduled a 400KB download. It always schedules all of my downloads for late at night, like 4AM to 7AM ish. I'm not on then, and it's frustrating. I shouldn't have to manually click each download. I have the Unlimited bandwidth, and my ISP isn't hurting during covid.
Is there any way to reconfig this so that my updates actually go automatically.

[wuddih]

if your computer is not on, then the update will happen at a later point. you dont have to click manually. the update will also happen when you start the game.

the scheduling has also more something to do with how often and long you play those games.

same as youtube flipped the quality lower, latest scheduling changes to Steam were done to put less stress on the entire infrastructure of the internet.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/2155476542897476692/

[{ИЯm} Keith]

Originally posted by wuddih:

if your computer is not on, then the update will happen at a later point. you dont have to click manually. the update will also happen when you start the game.

the scheduling has also more something to do with how often and long you play those games.

same as youtube flipped the quality lower, latest scheduling changes to Steam were done to put less stress on the entire infrastructure of the internet.

I feel like the internet can probably handle 400KB of data, even if every last customer wanted it.
Now I get it for say ark or some of the 10GB games. However pushing it to a later date doesn't solve anything. I am online in the evening each week day. I don't have my pc on while I sleep or work. So postponing just means I use that same amount of data in the same time slot on a different day.

Worse as I have 400 games, there is an ever building list if I don't manually download them all.

I should be able to opt out, my ISP is unlimited bandwidth, robust, and well able to handle the strain. The national network here is more then sufficient for the population. Maybe this is a thing some places but it's more of a frustration here.

[Snapjak]

It's not meant to help you, it's meant to help ease the strain on Steam's servers.

Rather than an update being released and everyone who owns the game getting it immediately it comes in waves. Just like OS updates and such.

[{ИЯm} Keith]

Originally posted by Snapjak:

It's not meant to help you, it's meant to help ease the strain on Steam's servers.

Rather than an update being released and everyone who owns the game getting it immediately it comes in waves. Just like OS updates and such.

Except I get my updates on patch Tuesday, and large enterprises can download 1X copy and push it to all machines on the domain.

If Steam is really having such a problem why isn't peer to peer transmission a thing? WOW had it.

I think it's more of a policy that's good for Steam's bottom line then it is a practical solution to anything.

That being said, how do I opt out? I see other users talking about a config file ?

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by {ИЯm} Keith:

That being said, how do I opt out?

you don't

it's been done by design for reasons you don't want to accept.

are you seriously planning to play all 400 of your installed games on a daily basis? then you don't need them updated immediately.

[Snapjak]

Have you ever browsed the download stats page? The figures are unbelievably high right now.

[AkielaXal]

Originally posted by wuddih:

if your computer is not on, then the update will happen at a later point. you dont have to click manually. the update will also happen when you start the game.

the scheduling has also more something to do with how often and long you play those games.

same as youtube flipped the quality lower, latest scheduling changes to Steam were done to put less stress on the entire infrastructure of the internet.

But it doesn't. If Steam schedules a download on my computer for a time when the computer isn't on, it never downloads unless I manually click it. It's frustrating. Obviously it's something I have to deal with.

[{ИЯm} Keith]

Originally posted by AkielaXal:

Originally posted by wuddih:

if your computer is not on, then the update will happen at a later point. you dont have to click manually. the update will also happen when you start the game.

the scheduling has also more something to do with how often and long you play those games.

same as youtube flipped the quality lower, latest scheduling changes to Steam were done to put less stress on the entire infrastructure of the internet.

But it doesn't. If Steam schedules a download on my computer for a time when the computer isn't on, it never downloads unless I manually click it. It's frustrating. Obviously it's something I have to deal with.

^ This!
It doesn't and I end up manually clicking them, and that kinda defeats the whole auto update, game distribution platform.

[{ИЯm} Keith]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Originally posted by {ИЯm} Keith:

That being said, how do I opt out?

you don't

it's been done by design for reasons you don't want to accept.

are you seriously planning to play all 400 of your installed games on a daily basis? then you don't need them updated immediately.

Yes actually, I have every game installed except COD 4 because punkbuster was creating issues, and a couple games I really did not enjoy.

I don't know when I sit down if I want to spend an hour trying one of the 50 games I got in the last 4 months that I haven't really given a chance or replay an old classic.

But what ever my reasons are, I feel like I should have the power of choice.

I don't not send my customers their files because the INTERNET is being used. They pay us, I do the work, they get their DATA. I.E. I pay steam> I gets my updates> it puts the lotion in the lotion in the basket.

[Hamez]

Originally posted by Snapjak:

It's not meant to help you, it's meant to help ease the strain on Steam's servers.

Rather than an update being released and everyone who owns the game getting it immediately it comes in waves. Just like OS updates and such.

This is just a load of crap, Thats not what it is at all, if EVERY other platform can download a game patch as soon as its up why cant steam.